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    MIT leads the way in spaghetti-based innovation

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    Rob LeFebvre
    Rob LeFebvre
    08.15.2018

    Breaking dry spaghetti noodles into precisely two parts might seem impossible, but scientists at MIT have done exactly that. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report how they twisted the noodles first, then bent them, to produce two halves instead of the usual shattering of three or more.